Tuesday, December 31, 2002

The Cry Of The Children Comments

Rating: 2.9

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers---
And that cannot stop their tears.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Kye Medhurst 27 February 2019

Can someone explain to me how marxist is seen in this poem with evidence

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Mystery Peep 02 April 2019

Please do your own homework.

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Deborah Cromer 02 February 2019

I love that she wrote a poem and made a difference with the attention it made. She did a great thing. Her feelings were her fuel to fire. Bravo on this one!

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Emmiasky Ojex 13 June 2018

Wow, this is such a painful reflection of the cries of children

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Frank Avon 04 October 2014

Hardly the sort of poetry Elizabeth Barrett is known for, but much more important. A social protest of an earlier age, powerful in its repetitive detail. Such protests, thank God, eventually proved effective.

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 04 October 2014

Child rights are to be given proper attention which the present world gives importance. The poem having such feeling the deprived children and their plight and crying wonderfully created in such a great poem and by the great poetess.

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Penky Yumnam 04 October 2013

i lije this poem, .. it brings me emotions

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Ayodeji Oluwaseun 04 October 2012

What a nice one, what a breathtaking one. am touched

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Kevin Straw 04 October 2012

Marvelous - read this and you will understand where the British welfare state comes from, and why the 19th century was such a rich recruiting ground for the political left - Marxism did not come out of an academic study but from the plight of these children. Had capitalism not been so red in tooth and claw during that period, Russia, China etc might have had very different histories.

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Karen Sinclair 04 October 2012

What strong pictures are thrust infront of me from this piece and they are so contrary. The poor emaciated child who has never seen ought but hardship and the preacher who is adored and feared by his flock. It must of been terribly hard for those who had compassion at the time. Its a shame these words still have relevance today

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Karen Sinclair 04 October 2012

What strong pictures are thrust infront of me from this piece and they are so contrary. The poor emaciated child who has never seen ought but hardship and the preacher who is adored and feared by his flock. It must of been terribly hard for those who had compassion at the time. Its a shame these words still have relevance today

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Karen Sinclair 04 October 2012

What strong pictures are thrust infront of me from this piece and they are so contrary. The poor emaciated child who has never seen ought but hardship and the preacher who is adored and feared by his flock. It must of been terribly hard for those who had compassion at the time. Its a shame these words still have relevance today

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Ramesh T A 04 October 2011

Wonderful meaningful poem! Tears elderly people knew and have control over it somehow! But how about the children never one thinks much in the sad world! It's a nice narration about tears of children and how they should live like other happy beings on the Earth as freely as they can be as we all see in Nature!

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Kyle Crofford 09 March 2011

The cry occurs when a child is raped by a big fat black guy.

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Big smoke 25 February 2019

What the ?

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Yen Cress 04 October 2007

This very moving depiction of the cruelties of forced labor by children in the coal mines probably encouraged the passage of laws protecting them. Things are much better today, thank God! , but in undeveloped nations, children are still a major part of the work force in the production of marketable goods and produce. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work was written for another time and place but, unfortunately, her premise is still valid.

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Marcia Morris 04 October 2007

This poet is deep, she pulls you in and keep you focus, one cannot leave her write untill the story is done told. Great!

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Molaire Jules 04 October 2007

Nice piece of work!

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Durham / England
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